Butter-worker



(No Model.)

J. H. TAYLOR.

BUTTER WORKER.

ATTORNEYS.

UNIT D STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JAMES H. TAYLOR, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,186, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed November 6, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. TAYLOR, of Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Butter-\Vorker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of butter-workers in which a roller works over the bottom of a box or tray containing the butter, the same being operated by a rack and pinion and crank.

The invention is embodied in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying d rawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of myimproved butter-worker, .parts being broken out and others shown in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 shows the apparatus folded Fig. 4 shows the latch for holding the roller in place.

The box A is provided with a convex bottom, B, to which the sides 0 and ends D are secured, which project slightly below the under surface of the bottom.

The roller E, fitting transversely in the box, is fluted or provided with four longitudinal ridges, a, and hasa shaft, F, passing through it or pivots,projectingfrom each end. On one end of the shaft F- a pinion, G, is rigidly mounted, which engages with a segmental rack, H, secured on the outer face of one side ofthe box. On the same end of the shaft a handle, J, is secured.

Two legs, K,are pivoted to each other at their upper ends,and to each leg K a bar, M, is pivoted, the lower ends of which bars M are pivoted to each other.

On the pivots of the bars M upwardly-projecting swinging bars N are pivoted, in which the shaft or pivots of the roller E are journaled.

One barN is provided with a pivoted latch,

O, which is locked in place by a spring, P, and thus holds the roller-shaft in place, but permits removal of the roller for cleaning or folding the apparatus.

The operation is as follows: The butter is placed in the box A, and the roller E revolved by means of the handle J alternatelyin opposite directions.

The pinion G and rack Hcause the rollerE to move forward and back in the box A, and thereby the butter is worked thoroughly.

The box being inclined from the middle toward the ends. the brine and milk that are pressed out of the butter can flow down to said ends, which will in practice be provided with outlets for drawing off such liquids.

WVhen the apparatus is erected, the ends of the bars M rest against the down Wardly-projccting parts of the end pieces, D, thus preventing spreading of the frame.

The box A can be removed from the supporting-frame and all folded compactly.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a butter-worker, thecombination,with a box having its end pieces projecting below the bottom, of a folding frame, the upper ends of the bars of which rest against the downwardly-projectiug parts of the end pieces, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In abutter-Worker, the combination,witl1 a box having a rack on one side, of aswinging frame, a fluted roller journaled in the same, the handle J, and the pinion G on the shaft, and a spring-catch forholding the roller-shaft on one of the bars of the swinging frame, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination, with the box A, of the pivoted legs K, the bars M, pivoted to each other and to thelegs K, the bars N, the roller E, the rack H, and the pinion G on the roller, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMES H. TAYLOR.

W'itnesses:

J. H. CAMERON, H. B. LEwIs. 

